TV Guide
Name: John Korpics
My Title(s) Are/Were: Executive Creative Director, Design Director, Art Director
I Work(ed) at These Magazines: Harvard Business Review, ESPN, Esquire, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, Premiere, more
My Magazine Career: Continues 😁 !
Magazine I Miss: TV Guide
I Miss It Because: What I miss is the impact it used to have when it arrived each week.
It was exciting to get the latest TV Guide, check out the cover—which had some great illustrations back in the day—and then plan what you were going watch that week.
See who was going to be on Johnny Carson, or read the close-up on James Garner 😂 .
It was a magazine the whole family wanted to look at and you used it all week, right next to the couch. I feel like TV Guide perfected the art of that short one sentence description of a show, like “This week John Boy Walton struggles with making a new friend,” or something like that.
People always talk about missing a magazine because it was beautiful or well written. I miss how important they used to be in our lives.
